SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Negroid, Authoritarian Personality, Blacks In France
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The social meaning of race and ethnicity race: a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important racial types: caucasian, negroid, and mongoloid can be misleading. 18% of canadian population claim languages other than french or english as their mother tongues. Minorities any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart and subordinates distinctive identity and subordination though not always less than 50% o ex. women in blacks in south africa. Prejudice and stereotypes prejudice: a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people stereotype: a simplified description applied to every person in some category. Aboriginal people are stereotyped by some as lacking motivation, but most poor people are white. Racism the belied that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another a powerful rationale.
